The Masque of the Red Death - Arizona State University

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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1850) THE “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.

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